Sgt Norman H Henry in zouave uniform with harem pants and fez (1861)
21 November 2022
After his service in 1861 as First Sergeant of Company C, Duree’s Zouaves, pictured here, Norman Henry Camp was commissioned a Lieutenant in the 4th New Jersey Infantry. He was on detail to the Signal Corps at Antietam in September 1862.
This photograph is online from the US Army Heritage & Education Center [CWP 189.66].
Capt. Joseph H. Spencer, half-length portrait (c. 1863)
19 November 2022
This Brady Studio portrait of Captain Joseph H Spencer was probably taken soon after he was commissioned Captain in the Signal Corps and assigned to the Office of the Signal Officer of the Army in Washington, in April 1863. He been a signal officer since being detailed from the First Minnesota Infantry in August 1861, and was on the Peninsular and Maryland Campaigns.
The original print is online from the Library of Congress.
Death of a signal officer (1863)
19 November 2022
Lieutenant Charles Henry Cary was an Acting Signal Officer in Maryland in September 1862, detailed from the 3rd Michigan Infantry. He was only 24 years old at his death in 1863, seen in this notice in the New York Times of 9 August 1863.
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